September Babies Thread #5 - we're a chatty bunch

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Yet another thread for our September babies!

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@Whisky2014
I don’t think we are bothering with decorating nursery until 6-9 months old.
Partly because baby won’t be in there and partly because we have to wait until after Sept to do any decorating (still getting settlement cracks and builder back in Aug to do final snag).
DH can decorate it next Spring before we need it. I am 99% sure it’ll be Winnie the Pooh and friends though as I LOVE Winnie myself and already have books, toys and nik naks that I’ve been given over the years that I’d love to display.

We also teach illustration at the uni I work at and one of the profs in that area that I know well (he is a also a children’s book illustrator) is going to do me some bespoke pieces to frame for free. Can’t wait!

Won't be decorating nursery here as we only just recently decorated a few months before ttc so I think we can get away with it for at least a year or 2. We might even think to move by then anyway.
The pregnancy pillow is making it's first appearance tonight!

@Megan2018 Ah that makes sense. I love Winnie the pooh too!
I think everything will become harder to do once baby arrives so just want it sorted. And i also think imay sleep in the nusery with the baby if he is a bad sleeper, no point in my husband being woken in the night as well as me.

Baby will be sharing with toddler ds, his room is a nautical theme. Should baby be a girl i will add some mermaids. Cot is already in place as ds hasnt been out of it long and made no sense to take it apart!

4 sleeps til scan!

Yes that can be a good idea @Whisky2014

DH and I have separate rooms anyway unless we have guests so baby will live in with me and DH will be in his room once back at work. We have 2 big “Master” bedrooms and 1 double for baby, as there’s plenty of room in my room there’s no pressure to kick her out as it’ll fit a full size cot.

I’m adding Winnie the Pooh wall stickers, curtains and getting Winnie the Pooh furniture
Will probably change to cars theme when he’s 2

Poor deprived second child will be inheriting DDs starry grey and yellow nursery. Which luckily still looks lovely.

I made her a few things - a patchwork blanket, ribbon mobile, star cushion etc. I feel I really need to make this baby something too but not sure what. Not sure I have the time, energy or inclination for another patchwork blanket.

I also made DD a teepee for Christmas when she was one. Baby #2 will not be so lucky!

Ah but baby two will have a lovely big sister! You made him/her that!

We're having n a new build too and the baby's room is currently the dump room with a rarely used spare single bed and a wardrobe where we keep our coats. Having to floor the loft to move all the random stuff like suitcases etc up there and will have to find a new home for the coats. After that I'm getting a new set of blackout curtains from Argos (£25) some artwork and a matching light shade from Daisy and Bump and will paint the "cot wall" a light shade of pink- the other walls are white and we have grey skirting. Most of the work is clearing the room rather than actual decoration.

I want to get a mamas and papas furniture set from Argos which is £600 for the cotbed, wardrobe and change unit/chest of drawers but DH says I'm nuts and that we can change the baby on the floor

@TheCraicDealer
Have a look at 2nd hand nursery furniture, it goes for pennies in really good condition.

Mind you, your DH is sort of right. No-one I know has bothered to go to the nursery to change a nappy.
You want a fold up mat and a diaper caddy upstairs and down instead so you can do it where you are and an over cot changing thing.

Winnie the Pooh theme here too - with yellow walls, we already have the paint. Dh and I have been practicing relaxing and doing nothing today and I must say, I think you're all right and we'll deffo be having a week or two of that when baby arrives, it's been lovely!!

We're getting our nursery furniture from ikea, I love the mamas and papas type stuff, but £1,000 for a 3 piece set, not even with soft close doors is just not gonna happen.

Love the girly workaround ivegot

Scan tomorrow afternoon!! After all that moaning that everything was taking forever, this 20 week scan seems to have come around remarkably quickly!!

I bought a cot top changer for dc4, never used it. Changed him on my bed in the night and on mat on floor in the day downstairs. I am going to try to use it this time as it cost £60

Re nursery furniture, i have a £60 mothercare cot that i bought for dc3 (6 years ago), a normal chest of drawers and some ikea kallax. Toddler bed for also about £60 and was also bought for dc3. All the furniture in that room is white so it all goes and looks nice but did not cost the earth!

We're in a bungalow so I'm one of the few people who will actually use a nursery to do nappy changes I feel!!

@ivegotthedecaf oh, I don't know. She's been an absolute demon today. We've never had any problems with her behaviour and are both a bit shellshocked - she announced she was going to smash the TV and picked up her wee chair to do it with. Amongst many, many other things. I could do with a gin!

@thecraicdealer is the changing unit part included with the drawers? If so, no harm in getting it and seeing what works for you. We didn't have a changing unit but had a mat and all the stuff on top of an IKEA unit in the nursery. I couldn't have got down on the floor to change her and was not subjecting my furniture to poo-splosions! Also, handy for night time changes. Of which there can be many!

Oh, and we have an IKEA cot, old IKEA drawers and a on old kallax unit in the nursery. We'll need to do a major rejig in that room eventually so I didn't want to replace perfect good furniture twice!

I check marketplace intermittently as I know some people who have got good bargains off there (colleague's DD got a tutti bambini 3 piece set and nursing chair for £400) but I haven't seen any plain white sets, which is all I want. Enough Moses baskets to sink a battleship though! DSis inherited a built-in chest of drawers from the previous tenant that she used for DNeice's change table and it's been very handy, especially in the morning/bedtime as all her little clothes were stored underneath.

stroan it's like a chest of drawers with the removable high-edge changing section on top, so it will have some longevity. Longer term we will need furniture for her room and this time next year DH will be out of a job, so I'm conscious of trying to make these sorts of big ticket purchases whilst we can afford them!

thecraicdealer is it the harrow set from Argos you are after? I got that set for DS 2.5 years ago and it was on sale for approx £400 plus i got the matching toy chest and shelving unit thrown in for free, so its worth waitingtil argos do a baby event if you want brand new. It really does look great though, even now. Infact I just changed my son's cot bed to the toddler bed today!
Others are right though, I've never used the top of the drawers to change him on. And the wardrobe has barely any clothes in so I wonder if it's absolutely necessary.

If you have a mothercare outlet near you, they have some ex display furniture sets for half the usual price

We're going for a llama theme for our nursery. It's the room next to our bedroom, so hoping we can get it done in the next few months as it'll be useful for changing space, storage and if needed me or DH can sleep in there with little one to give each other a break. I cleared it out last week, it had become a dumping ground and needs a lot of work to redecorate. One of the many perks of buying from an elderly person is floor to ceiling wallpaper - yes including the ceiling 🙈. FIL is builiding us our cot and hopefully a built in wardrobe too. I've picked up a vintage chest of drawers which I'm hoping to paint and we have the nursing chair already - a Olli Ella chair and ottoman - so comfy 😍 I'm probably a bit eager, lol but I like to be organized 😊

Good luck to those with scans this week, I can't believe we're all nearly half way!

I havent bought ANYTHING for the baby yet

Scan on thursday and some money saved so i will no doubt be hitting the shops then!

We spent the weekend reorganizing DS' room, he can climb out his cot now so we've moved his toys all downstairs and sorted through them, and got a baby gate up etc. Also meant we could see exactly what we have for this baby too.

I think we will go for a woodland theme, we've painted the room a soft mint and will have white furniture.

Btw, didn't someone else say they suffer with carpal tunnel? Haven't had it in previous pregnancies but have this time round. Is there anything we can do to help stop it getting so bad? Drive to work was a killer!

We won't be decorating a room before, as fingers crossed we will be moving in July/ August. But when we do I'm all for embracing the brights- rainbow rugs, stripes, pom pom bunting, polka dots. Believe me, the time comes too fast where you don't get much of a say in what they want, so enjoy it while you can and do something you love!

That's how I feel KnobJockey- as we're only painting one wall and putting a few pictures up it'll be no drama to change it once she's old enough to decide she loves sharks or circuses or monster trucks and wants her room to reflect that.

You're all so far ahead of me! I have my 16w appointment this afternoon and the first of our NHS antenatal appointments. Did everyone get to hear the heartbeat at theirs'? I read one article where it said they'd stopped doing it as it can be hard to pick up at this stage which causes anxiety but I really want to hear it!

Looks like I have some catching up to do!

Lovely to hear all the nursery talk and so many scans coming up! Still a couple of weeks til mine but seeing the midwife at last tomorrow so really hoping she will listen to the heartbeat as I would really like the reassurance to keep me going! I know she may not so not getting hopes up.

Good to hear thoughts on changing set ups. We only moved and renovated in July. I had a baby in mind when decorating the spare room (not that I told hubby that, I just reallllly liked grey and yellow together :p), it's all grey and yellow with some grey and white leaf wallpaper so luckily don't have to do too much whatever the gender. Had a good clear out in there so the built in cupboards are all clear for baby, already have cot from FB marketplace and a little bookcase that was in there anyway as well as a chair and stool that will be perfect for nursing and we decided on just an IKEA chest of drawers. Thought I'd just get a changing mat so I can change on top of drawers or elsewhere, sounds like I might be on the right lines. Was also thinking that using reusables I'd more likely be changing baby near bathroom so liners can go straight in the toilet?!

Hope you all had a relaxing weekend! I totally overdid it. My nan is visiting the house for first time today so decided yesterday was a good day for a spring clean. Also planning to return to work after Easter so wanted it done before then. Hubby has tried really hard to keep it nice while I've been poorly but our standards just don't match! Anyway that led to cutting down hedges, the grass, washing the windows etc etc and I ACHE today, especially since I've barely moved for the last two months! OH disappeared after dinner though and returned to drag me away from the mop to a hot bubble bath and candles so some relaxing happened!

Best of luck with upcoming scans x